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Universal unveils its Dark Universe series—a shared cinematic universe that plans to eventually feature films with such classic monsters as Dracula, the Wolf Man, Bride of Frankenstein, the Invisible Man, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon—with this adventurous but muddled mummy movie that To...

The Transformers franchise is now five movies in and ten years old, yet the question remains: What’s the point of all this? The overarching plot has become progressively more ridiculous with each new installment, and we’re still seeing the same CGI-driven fights between giant robot toys that the ...

A collective, barely audible sigh of frustration could be heard from Marvel fans everywhere when yet another reboot of the Spider-Man franchise was announced—the third version of the web-slinger in 15 years. Who needs a new Spider-Man, many mused, when it had been seemingly done to death in the T...

Charlize Theron stars as MI6 agent Lorraine Broughton in director David Leitch’s high-velocity spy thriller, which is set in 1989 Berlin during the waning days of the Cold War. When we first meet Broughton, she’s badly bruised from head to toe and on her way to be debriefed by her humorless boss ...

Late in The Glass Castle, which is based on Jeannette Walls’ best-selling memoir about growing up in a rootless and highly dysfunctional family, Jeannette (Brie Larson) gets into an argument with her homeless, alcoholic father, Rex, when he shows up unexpectedly at her engagement party in New Yor...

Annabelle: Creation is the latest installment in James Wan’s The Conjuring series, which at this point is practically the horror genre’s answer to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Wait, wasn’t an eponymous origin story about this possessed porcelain doll just released in 2014? Yes, but that wasn’t ...